SVR4 and VirtualBox

I recently spent a couple of evenings archiving about 80 5-1/4 diskettes from 1991 with ESIX 4.0.3A (SVR4). I m trying to get an ESIX installation running

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I recently spent a couple of evenings archiving about 80 5-1/4"
diskettes from 1991 with ESIX 4.0.3A (SVR4). I'm trying to get an ESIX
installation running under VirtualBox 4.1 (Linux), but haven't had any
luck. I can boot from the first diskette image, which tne prompts to
insert the 2nd and 3rd diskettes. After the 3rd diskette is done, after a
short while it PANICs and throws a kernel mode trap. I've played around
with the virtual machine settings, and it seems to object to the IDE
controller.

... I have not, but when I moved to a virtualized infrastructure for a consulting gig a few years ago, I went with VMware (ESXi in this case) because I needed

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On 08/29/2012 10:33 PM, Mike Loewen wrote:

> I recently spent a couple of evenings archiving about 80 5-1/4"
> diskettes from 1991 with ESIX 4.0.3A (SVR4). I'm trying to get an ESIX
> installation running under VirtualBox 4.1 (Linux), but haven't had any
> luck. I can boot from the first diskette image, which tne prompts to
> insert the 2nd and 3rd diskettes. After the 3rd diskette is done, after a
> short while it PANICs and throws a kernel mode trap. I've played around
> with the virtual machine settings, and it seems to object to the IDE
> controller.
>
> Has anyone gotten an x86 SVR4 installation running under VirtualBox?

I have not, but when I moved to a virtualized infrastructure for a
consulting gig a few years ago, I went with VMware (ESXi in this case)
because I needed to run SCO Openserver 5, which Just Will Not Run(tm)
under VirtualBox. This may be a similar situation.

If you can share your ESIX disks (please?? =)) I will try it on my
VMware host machine here and report back.

-Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA

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